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What's in the Phlakaton Top 5 CD Tray NOW  .........

1. The White Stripes - Elephant

2. Mark Olson - Decembers Child

3.Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses

4. Anglicana - Eliza Carthy

5. The Delgados - Hate

A list of the current CD's spending more than average time in the 5 CD Tray at Phlakaton House.

 

 

Best of 2002 Top Ten

1. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

2. Lambchop - Is A Woman

3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4. Sigur Ros - ( )

5. Ryan Adams -Demolition

6. Grand Drive - See the Morning in

7.The Reindeer Section -Son of Evil reindeer

8. Leaves - Breathe

9.The Arlenes - Stuck on Love

10.Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

......and just bubbling under........

Josh Rouse / Under Cold Blue Stars .... Counting Crows / Hard Candy....The Guthries......Beth Orton / Daybreaker ..Coldplay / Rush of Blood to the Head.......Foo Fighters / One by One .....Be Good Tanyas / Blue Horse

 

Click here for :-

Bands to keep an eye on

North Surrey Venue Reviews & links

Music Links

GIG REVIEWS   

 Fragments -  a place for North Surrey gig reviews, venues and other bits that didn't have a place elsewhere

Click the drummer to see  reviews of ....

Waterson : Carthy

Wishbone Ash / Stray

Turin Brakes / The Thrills

Mark Olson & the Creekdippers

Martin Simpson

Counting Crows / Gemma Hayes

Caravan / Focus

Grand Drive / The Vessels

Ryan Adams Acoustic show / Jesse Malin

The Arlenes / Alan Tyler

Czars / Tram / The Kittens

Sigur Ros / Coil

Hem & Lincoln

Roger McGuinn

Neil Young / Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Goldrush

Lambchop / Vic Chesnutt

Handsome Family / Oh Susanna

Ryan Adams / Proud Mary

Witness

Deep Purple / The Planets

....and check out our top 3 gigs of2002 !

 

Future Gigs - where you'll find us in the audience this year !!

 

Or check out the  archive for reviews of :-

Mercury Rev....Caravan.....The Posies....Cosmic Rough Riders....Lowgold.....Lambchop....Australian Pink Floyd....Willard Grant Conspiracy.....Gong.....Serious Kitchen....  Sigur Ros....Rod Clements...Upside Down Home......Eileen Rose....The Jayhawks ...Porcupine Tree.

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OK so can the Brits do it as well - actually yes we can and here's some Lo fi alternative combo's to prove it - Clinic, Wire, Broadcast...and who will be the new Coldplay....  This way for US Alt Rock - Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Mercury Rev etc...

In here you will find all things Canterbury,  summary of bands, reviews, soundalikes etc....

In here y'all find things alt.country - Lambchop, Jayhawks, Hazeldine, Wilco and the like....

You'll find a mixture of musical stuff here both new and old.  These four boxes will open up to the worlds  of :-

 Americana/Alt.country, 

UK Post Rock,

 Canterbury Scene,  

US  experimental music.

Read about  bands like Lambchop, The Flaming Lips, Mogwai, Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse, Caravan, Hatfield & the North, Ryan Adams, Soft Machine as well as short histories of each genre.

 

 

 

 

 

Check this link for my reviews as appear on AMERICANA-UK  

http://www.americana-uk.com/html/reviews.html

 

 

 

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